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Summary: The Rise Of Ceramic Cookware

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When we speak of “ceramics,” we instantly think of “pottery” or clay. Its application now ranges from art to domestic, building and industrial products. That includes tableware and cookware. If we take a look back at history, we could see how the earliest ceramics – pottery – have already been used during ancient times for cooking. Clay, sometimes mixed with other materials is molded into shape and later hardened in the fire. Improvements and enhancements have been introduced over the years until it now found its way to the ceramic coated cookware that we all know and love today.
The Rise of Ceramic Coated Cookware
It is normal for many types of cookware these days to be manufactured with certain coatings to improve their quality and performance. …show more content…

For a long time, it has gained popularity. However, its usefulness started to get overshadowed by its shortcomings. When subjected to very high temperatures, the Teflon coating emits fumes that have been proven to be harmful to the health. Because of this, many people shifted to other types of cookware, ceramic coated cookware being one of them.
Advantages of Ceramic Coated Cookware
Ceramic coated cookware is glazed, much like how enamel coated cookware is glazed or coated with enamel. Let us break things down to get a clearer view of the many things ceramic cookware sets have to offer
Safe and healthy to use. The health risks associated with Teflon and other nonstick coatings used in other cookware sets have driven people to look for other and safer alternatives. Ceramic cookware sets are considered to be the healthiest options for meal preparation since the clay used is much safer than the other elements or chemicals used in conventional coatings. These conventional coatings mostly make use of the potentially toxic PFOA, or the perfluorooctanoic acid. This is unheard of in the case of ceramic coated cookware, which has also earned the title “green pan” due to being healthy and environment-friendly. Even nutritionists give their thumbs up to ceramic cookware sets and ceramic coated

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